I quite like Tailscale SSH for this, but I don’t have as many machines, so not sure how it will scale. You can definitely assign roles here to allow/deny SSH between hosts in your fleet though.

I keep hearing this about Arch: could you educate a noob on what kinds of things I’d be dealing with? I’m comfortable with Linux in general but somewhat apprehensive with what I hear about Arch

And a great how-to on building one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq4LmYEFlHM

Recently discovered this great site for making these https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html

I mean, this is Google we’re talking about…